About two giants, with a hint of an apology
It has been borne in on me that I have called Edward Hopper "the greatest American artist who ever lived, and one of the greatest of all time" on Facebook, and said practically the same thing about Jeff Jones here when that great genius died last year. Now, logically, there cannot be TWO "greatest American painters of all time". And Hopper and Jones are so wholly unlike each other in any way except greatness as to make any kind of confrontation pointless. Let's just say that America has had more giants, more painters of Old Master status, than a youngish country has a right to, and leave it at that, OK?